Posted on 01/26/2015 8:02:58 AM PST by Kaslin
Logic is the cognitive pathway to truth. While to err is human, when we objectively apply logic to the question at hand, we at least endeavor, if done so in good faith, to arrive at the truth of the matter.
Jesus is the spiritual, and the very narrow, pathway to Truth, which is Himself. He invented logic. It’s a tool that helps us to observe, study and to otherwise uncover the many mysteries veiled beneath His awesome natural order.
Truth is universal. It applies to everyone, including to the relativist who might prefer wandering aimless and far removed from logic’s narrow path, the wilderness of spiritual death.
It remains true for all, for instance, that if one leaps from the Sears Tower, one will, absent some intervening salvation, splat below like a ripe tomato. Whether we like it or not, this is the natural order of things.
The question at hand is this: What exactly is “same-sex marriage”?
Let’s do an exercise in logic.
In order to determine that which something is, it is sometimes helpful to first explore that which it is not. Hence, we can delineate that which is “gay marriage” by first understanding marriage itself. Jesus defined marriage for us. His definition is reflected in the spiritual, biological and in-every-other-way-self-evident order of His divinely defined design.
Declared Jesus: “‘Haven’t you read,’ he replied, ‘that at the beginning the Creator “made them male and female,” and said, “For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh”? So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate’” (Matthew 19:4-6).
Rather conspicuously, and as I’ve noted before, Jesus did not say: “At the beginning the Creator made them lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT). For this reason a male, female or shemale will leave his, her or whatchahoozie’s father and mother, father and father or mother and mother and be united to his or her wife – and/or husband – and the two or more will become one flesh. Not that there’s anything wrong with that.”
Here, and as I’ve likewise explained, is what marriage is: “Marriage is the God-ordained, lifelong, covenantal union between man and wife, designed to provide men, women and children optimal stability and overall well-being. Marriage is that biologically, spiritually and morally centered institution calculated to ensure responsible procreation and perpetuate the human race. Marriage, real marriage, represents the fundamental cornerstone of any healthy society (any society that hopes to survive, at least).
“Here’s what marriage is not:
“Anything else.”
And so the notion of “same-sex” marriage is a self-defeating proposition. “Gay marriage” is not marriage at all.
Yet it is something.
But what?
From o’er the big pond, the Daily Mail offers insight: “Two male witches have tied the knot in the U.K.’s first pagan same-sex marriage.
“Tom Lanting, 34, and Iain Robertson, 39, who have been together for 12 years, were married in a ceremony in the 16th-century vaulted cellars of Marlin’s Wynd in Edinburgh. …
“The couple, who live in the Scottish capital, are both described as being hedge witches, who use herbal remedies to deal with medical and spiritual ailments.
“The ceremony encompassed a number of pagan traditions, including handfasting, where their hands were bound together, the sharing of mead and jumping the broom. …
“‘The new equal marriage law means that we finally have equal recognition and acceptance of our relationship, and it opens the door for all LGBTI couples to take the same step,’ the men said. …
“Louise Park, the presiding officer for the Pagan Federation (Scotland), conducted the ceremony.”
“We feel that, if any couple wish to, they should be able to make their marriage vows before their own personal Gods, friends and family, in a religious ceremony tailored to suit their own beliefs,” she told the Daily Mail.
Paganism is the antithesis of biblical Christianity, but it mustn’t be too lightly grasped or narrowly defined. It is far more broadly characterized than the overt hocus pocus practiced by Tom and Iain. In truth, any religious tradition, or no tradition at all, that falls beyond the Judeo-Christian Bible is, by default, paganism.
The opposite of truth is the lie. If Christianity embodies absolute truth, which it does, then paganism embodies the absolute lie. If Christianity is of God, who is truth, then paganism is of Satan, who is the father of lies. Satan is the “personal god” of paganism in all of its deceptive and Christ-mocking manifestations.
So, to be clear, and when measured against Christ’s unambiguous and biologically affirmed definition of marriage, all “same-sex marriages” are “pagan marriages.” They are “mock marriages” insofar as they mock both real marriage and the Christ who created it.
Moreover, the very thing that defines “gay marriage, the biologically and spiritually disordered act of same-sex sodomy,” likewise mocks God’s design for natural sexual intercourse. The Bible, throughout both the Old and New Testaments, unambiguously condemns as sin rising to the level of “an abomination,” all same-sex sexual conduct, be it, “loving, monogamous and committed,” or otherwise.
Homosexuality is mock sexuality.
And “gay marriage” is mock marriage.
So, again, and lest there be any uncertainty as to where I’m going with all this, “same-sex marriage” is evil – always and without exception. It is centrally defined by the sin of Sodom, which is expressly wicked conduct. All good things come from God the Father, and all wickedness comes from the father of lies. If God designed biblical marriage and natural human sexuality, and He did, then we are left no doubt as to who designed its counterfeit – as to who fabricated pagan “gay marriage” and otherwise perverted God’s perfect purposes for human sexuality.
“Gay marriage” is Satanic.
It’s only logical.
No matter what judges order, and no matter how many people pretend otherwise, gay “marriage” has no more connection to real marriage than unicorns have to real horses.
Marriage is a holy rite.
Thus sodomites can’t marry.
The state can allow them to be civilly joined in a legal sense, but that is no more a marriage than a bath is a baptism.
That is disgusting
Matt Barber, COME ON DOWN!!! You've won a shiny aluminum Word Salad bowl and this handy titanium spork!
Jesus invented logic?
Who knew?
Yes, but note that the “couple” in the article use all the arguments used to push legal recognition of homosexual marriage.
1. The mentally ill want to get “married” just because it debases, ridicules, mocks, and devalues real marriages.
2. The government compounds the issue by assigning certain benefits, entitlements, privileges, and so forth to married couples. It’s the unintended consequences of the govt.’s misguided social engineering and constant meddling in citizens’ lives that makes the mentally ill want to get married in the first place.
Otherwise, they wouldn’t even care.
Entering into such a marriage, God is the third partner who guards his investment.
But when people enter into a marriage who are not a man and a woman, God cannot bless the union, in fact the union is cursed.
God will not be mocked.
Yes he did and also science. Actually he invented life itself. Who Knew? most of us.
I’d clarify this article a little — Gay Marriage is the latest evil to befall marriage. Its not like marriage was a vibrant, healthy institution and then gay marriage came along and destroyed it. Secularists started to undermine marriage in the 50s and 60s with “no fault” divorce, which became quickie, Vegas-type divorces. Followed by Vegas-type marriages, where people can get married drunk with Elvis as their pastor. Followed by living together, followed by having kids out of wedlock. Etcetera, etcetera, etcetera all the way to Gay Marriage. And Gay Marriage won’t be the end. Next up will be multiple marriages. Hey, why not let someone get married to two people if he or she really loves them? That’s all that matters, right? We fool ourselves if we think that the issue is simply gay marriage.
It would have been less bad to have polygamy, than this. You can have some semblance of normal love in polygamy. Not this hate based charade.
Anyhow, I hope we all get serious enough about the Lord to have a gospel to actually share, not to just complain that others are making it difficult for us to believe.
The primary objective is to corrupt the meaning of specific words in the language.
Marriage is, and always has been, the union of one male and one female of appropriate age, of specified degree of separation of consanguinity, and of acceptable moral character.
That means no marriages of parent and child, or of siblings, and of sufficient character to not be a blot on the community.
Now we are seeing “exceptions” made for numbers of mates in ONE union, or confirming incestuous relationships, or even interspecies relationships.
You are correct; this is not going to stop with gay marriage. By definition, “progressivism” knows no boundaries, it just rolls on until it destroys itself and everything around it. It is basically nihilism masked by vestiges of Judeo-Christian morality, vestiges which it is shedding like a snake shedding its skin.
It is, indeed.
Secularists have defined marriage as people “loving” each other. That’s all that matters according to them. So if two men love each other, or a man loves three women, or a woman loves her brother, they should be able to get married. And then when they are no longer in love, you can terminate the marriage. Nowhere in their definition is a commitment before God or any type of bond or commitment beyond a child-like, head-over-heels puppy love feeling.
Spot on!
Right on.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.